Japan business sentiment negative for first time since 2013: survey
Confidence among Japan’s biggest manufacturers has plunged into negative territory.
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‘Back to square one’: Olympic delay puts Japan in a spin
Japan’s media and athletes reacted with disappointment Wednesday to the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but expressed relief the Games had not been cancelled altogether over the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan grants over $300 million for social projects
Japan pledges around $310 million for 5 projects promoting economic development.
Japan provides aid for schools, water facility in rural areas
Nearly $400,000 in Japanese aid to construct schools and infrastructure in 4 provinces.
Japan’s imports from China plunged in February on virus woes
Japan’s imports from China almost halved last month from a year earlier.
Japan to provide nearly $250,000 for bridge projects
Japan to provide nearly $250,000 for development projects in Kratie and Kampot.
Japan, Cambodia boost bilateral ties
A joint meeting addresses increasing trade volume and strengthening tourism and education in the Kingdom.
Japan court sentences man to death for care home mass killing
A court in Japan on Monday sentenced a man to death for the murder of 19 people in a stabbing attack at a care home for disabled people.
Japan’s Abe pledges Olympics to go ahead despite virus havoc
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday resisted pressure for changes to the Tokyo Olympics schedule even as sporting events worldwide fall victim to the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan grants $4 million for MRC
Japan grants nearly $4 million to the Mekong River Commission to advance its flood and drought monitoring and forecasting functions.
Japan: unveils fresh economic package to offset virus downturn
Abe announces a second emergency package to tackle economic woes amid covid-19.
Japan woman tests positive for COVID-19 after ‘recovery’
A woman in Japan who had recovered from Coronavirus has tested positive again.
Other infected countries need to take resolute and decisive actions
The global solidarity the WHO has repeatedly called for should not fall on deaf ears, lest China’s remarkable efforts to contain the virus prove to be of no purpose because others have not heeded the warnings.
Japan suspends football over virus as Olympics loom
Japan suspended its football league on Tuesday, making it the latest sporting victim of the deadly coronavirus with just five months to go before the Tokyo Olympics.
Japan aid to improve Kingdom’s agriculture, health and youth sectors
Japan donates a total of $890,471 for the development of irrigation systems.
China sees drop in new virus cases, two Japan cruise passengers die
China reported a big drop in new coronavirus cases on Thursday, fuelling hopes the epidemic is nearing its peak, but Japan faced a growing crisis as two passengers from a quarantined cruise ship died.
Passengers leave Japan virus ship as China toll tops 2,000
Relieved passengers disembark a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan.
Japan completes virus testing for quarantined ship
All passengers and crew on board a ship quarantined off Japan have now been tested for the new coronavirus, the government said Tuesday, as more countries moved to evacuate citizens from the boat.
US evacuates from Japan virus ship as China death toll climbs
The US evacuated citizens from a coronavirus-infected cruise ship in Japan.
Hopes to boost textile exports to Japan with added value
CLMV countries are encouraged to improve their production chains to export to Japan.
Japan to send COVID-19 medical supplies to Kingdom
Japan plans to provide medical supplies to Cambodia to fight COVID-19.
Chengdu Trilateral Summit still to deliver
The fact that China, Japan and South Korea (CJK) engaged in an agreed-upon trilateral summit framework – and bilateral dialogues on the sidelines – was no small achievement given heightened tensions between the three countries.
Japan provides nearly one million dollars to ECCC
Japan contributes nearly $1 million to the UN component of the Khmer Rouge tribunal.
Snow woes for Japan’s ice sculpture festival
Every year, tens of thousands of tourists flock to the snow festival in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo, attracted by some 200 large, but intricate ice sculptures.
Is the Novel Coronavirus peaking?
In Japan, six more people on the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama have tested positive
Japan’s Abe pledges anti-virus steps ahead of Olympics
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday vowed the outbreak of a new virus that has killed more than 360 people in neighbouring China will not have any impact on the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics this summer.
Japan provides funds for irrigation, agriculture projects
Japan is continuing to support the Kingdom’s infrastructure development.
Japan urges Ghosn to return as fugitive tycoon defends escape
Japan’s justice minister urges Carlos Ghosn to return and make his case in court.
Abe ‘deeply worried’ by Middle East tensions
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has tried to carve out a role mediating between Washington and Tehran, said Monday he was “deeply worried” by tensions in the Middle East.
Ghosn escape sparks calls to toughen Japan’s bail system
Ghosn’s flight while on bail has sparked calls to toughen Japan’s justice system.
